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The lightness of being : mass, ether, and the unification of forces / by Wilczek, Frank.(CARDINAL)755368;
About the title -- Reader's guide -- pt. I. The origin of mass -- Getting to It -- Newton's zeroth law -- Einstein's second law -- What matters for matter -- The hydra within -- The bits within the its -- Symmetry incarnate --The grid (persistence of ether) -- Computing matter -- The origin of mass -- The music of the grid : a poem in two equations -- Profound simplicity -- pt. II. The feebleness of gravity -- Is gravity feeble? : Yes (in practice) -- Is gravity feeble? : No (in theory) -- The right question -- A beautiful answer -- pt. III. Is beauty truth? -- Unification : the siren's song -- Unification : through a glass, darkly -- Truthification -- Unification [loves] SUSY -- Anticipating a new golden age -- Epilogue: A smooth pebble, a pretty shell -- Appendix A: Particles have mass, the world has energy -- Appendix B: The multilayered, multicolored cosmic superconductor -- Appendix C: From "not wrong" to (maybe) right -- Glossary.The 2004 Nobel Prize winner in physics offers this readable and authoritative work for the general public. It explores basic questions about space, mass, energy, and the longed-for possibility of a fully unified theory of nature.
Subjects: Ether (Space); Mass (Physics); Matter.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Archangel : fiction / by Barrett, Andrea.(CARDINAL)728037;
The investigators (1908) -- The ether of space (1920) -- The island (1873) -- The particles (1939) -- Archangel (1919).During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans--among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919--from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Short stories.; Science; Science;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Man and the universe : the philosophers of science / by Commins, Saxe.(CARDINAL)128146; Linscott, Robert N.(Robert Newton),1886-1964.(CARDINAL)132404;
On the nature of things / Lucretius -- On the revolutions of the celestial spheres / Nicholas Copernicus -- Novum organum / Francis Bacon -- Discourse on method / Rene Descartes -- The positive philosophy / Auguste Comte -- Recapitulation and conclusion / Charles Darwin -- The evolution of life / Henri Bergson -- The method of dream-interpretation / Sigmund Freud -- The dream as wish-fulfillment / Sigmund Freud -- Some problems of philosophy / Sir James Jeans -- Reality, causation, science and mysticism / Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington -- The problems of space, ether and the field of physics / Albert Einstein.
Subjects: Science; Social sciences;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Air-borne : the hidden history of the life we breathe / by Zimmer, Carl,1966-author.(CARDINAL)325907;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-456) and index.Prologue: That's where it is -- Part 1: To the stratosphere. The floating germs ; The sanitarians ; A watermelon doctor ; Ethereal space ; A perfect cycle ; The scattered workers -- Part 2: The suicide of bacteriology. War at home ; Wings for death ; A fine frozen daiquiri -- Part 3: Afterlife. Loch raven ; The brothers Riley ; Sacks of sugar, vials of powder -- Part 4: Resurrection. Sea, land, fire, clouds ; We're all going to get it ; A state of preparedness -- Part 5: Wuhan and beyond. Disease X ; History set us up ; A mark on the air -- Epilogue: Happy birthday, Chita Rivera."Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air--and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the Covid pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere and through the history of its discovery. We travel to the tops of mountain glaciers, where Louis Pasteur caught germs from the air, and follow Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh above the clouds, where they conducted groundbreaking experiments. We meet the long-forgotten pioneers of aerobiology including William and Mildred Wells, who tried for decades to warn the world about airborne infections, only to die in obscurity. Air-Borne chronicles the dark side of aerobiology with gripping accounts of how the United States and the Soviet Union clandestinely built arsenals of airborne biological weapons designed to spread anthrax, smallpox, and an array of other pathogens. Air-Borne also leaves readers looking at the world with new eyes--as a place where the oceans and forests loft trillions of cells into the air, where microbes eat clouds, and where life soars thousands of miles on the wind. Weaving together gripping history with the latest reporting on Covid and other threats to global health, Air-Borne surprises us on every page as it reveals the hidden world of the air"--
Subjects: Informational works.; Airborne infection.; Communicable diseases.; Air;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 33
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Physics and our universe [videorecording] : how it all works / by Wolfson, Richard,teacher.(CARDINAL)753753; Reay, Alisha,film producer.(CARDINAL)554670; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;
Directors, Jonathan D. Leven, Jim M. Allen, Chris Preston ; producer, Alisha Reay.Lecturer: Richard Wolfson.A series of lectures on physics and the universe.DVD, region 1.
Subjects: Educational films.; Instructional films.; Lectures.; General relativity (Physics); Physics.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The book of nothing : vacuums, voids, and the latest ideas about the origins of the universe / by Barrow, John D.,1952-2020.(CARDINAL)331265;
Includes bibliographcal references and index.
Subjects: Zero (The number); Vacuum.; Nothing (Philosophy);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Edens zero. [manga] / by Mashima, Hiro,1977-(CARDINAL)470639; Nibley, Alethea,translator.(CARDINAL)469554; Nibley, Athena,translator.(CARDINAL)469555;
"With both the rebel forces and Interstellar Union Army engaging the imperial battleships in the space around Nero 66, Shiki and the EDENS ZERO team take the ght to Shura and a few members of Nero's elite Oceans 6. It's gravity versus gravity as Shiki and Shura match ether powers. Although they share similar ether powers, Shura highlights the difference between them when he picks a path of cruelty. Meanwhile, Weisz leads an inltration team to reach the All-Link system. All robot life in the Aoi Cosmos hangs in the balance as Weisz nds himself an Oceans away from reaching his goal." --Back cover.T, Ages 13+.
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Science fiction comics.; Young adult fiction.; Interplanetary voyages; Robots; Space ships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Simply Einstein : relativity demystified / by Wolfson, Richard.(CARDINAL)753753;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255) and index.The self-creating universe and other absurdities -- Tennis, tea, and time travel -- Moving heaven and earth -- Let there be light -- Ether dreams -- Crisis in physics -- Einstein to the rescue -- Stretching time -- Star trips and squeezed space -- The same time? -- Past, present, future, and-- elsewhere -- Faster than light? -- Is everything relative? -- A problem of gravity -- Into the black hole -- Einstein's universe.Einstein's basic message is so simple that a single English sentence suffices to state it all, promises Wolfson (physics, Middlebury College). It is the implications that are disturbing and can become endlessly complicated. He does use numbers now and then when they can help illustrate an idea, but his approach is narrative.
Subjects: Relativity (Physics);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Master of you : a five-point system to synchronize your body, your home, and your time with your ambition / by Stillman, Cate,author.(CARDINAL)804545;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index."Master of You delivers a five-point system, based upon the five elements of Ayurveda (ether, air, fire, water, earth), to help readers develop habits, rituals, skills, and tools that will optimize all aspects of their lives. Author, Cate Stillman maps each of the five elements to an area of our lives to support our finding alignment: Earth/Body, Ether/Space, Fire/Vision, Air/Time, Water/Flow. In Cate's words, this practice is about using the five elements to empower your dharma, uplevel your chakras, and shift from overwhelm to ease, from clutter to clarity, from density to levity, from scattered to grounded. Through this underlying five-element system, readers are given a road map to help gain more clarity around their potential capacity, harness control of their time, experience more joy from their living spaces and possessions, and become more competent in their own unique power. Cate distills of the essential, ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga to deliver a complete evolutionary revolution f"--
Subjects: Medicine, Ayurvedic.; Self-actualization (Psychology); Yoga.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beyond : visions of the interplanetary probes / by Benson, Michael,1962-(CARDINAL)336244;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword : Tomorrow's explorers / Arthur C. Clarke -- Earth-Moon system -- Venus -- Sun -- Mercury -- Mars -- Asteroids -- Jupiter system -- Saturn -- Uranus -- Neptune -- Space in time -- Trajectories -- About the photographs -- Afterword : Why is the human on earth? / Lawrence Weschler."Since the 1960s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been sending unmanned satellites to explore the planets, moons, and sun. These probes have amassed a stunning visual record of other worlds, revealing not one but scores of new frontiers, from rust-red Mars to the ethereal rings of Saturn.""Author Michael Benson has spent years compiling and digitally processing the best of these images. In Beyond this "deskbound cosmic pilgrim" (Atlantic Monthly) has pulled together the most spectacular of them into one volume that presents these photographs for the first time as art. The resulting book consists of two parts: the first is a spectacular visual tour of the solar system, with views ever bit as compelling as the work of the great landscape photographers on earth; the second is a series of essays that explain the story behind these photographs: the history of the probes' journeys, how they work, and why they were built. This book shows us how modern science has revealed the astonishing beauty and mystery of the solar system and its awe-inspiring worlds far beyond any places human beings have ever directly observed."--Jacket.
Subjects: Space photography.; Space probes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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